Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc0612536622de4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-21 18:51:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0d83120bb04c617dfe6aad34ca086784 SHA-1: ecee2d18f68edb312e87f3b8105d3563d10e5cb0 SHA-256: fc0612536622de4dea296a3ec50d72ef3b46854c0ff3e5e503005dcc050bab85
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised with a keyword related to 'Koala bed sheets'. The document also functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous other PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation or to spread malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the embedded URLs confirm the intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=koala+bed+sheets
    • http://files.motanum.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969306/vadalololepuv_belin_jedosifogijisuf_bixukagozano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2836/3939/files/polozikoxuva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4488/1059/files/business_case_presentation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2402/2690/files/fizofuwunuxinefiwigi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5498/0505/files/body_boss_method_nutrition_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9812/5976/files/doctor_sign_in_sheet_printable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9538/8313/files/rapport_de_stage_sur_le_rapprochement_bancaire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2108/0475/files/msp_to_ogg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4030/1478/files/mandalorian_knee_armor_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8838/0061/files/jubaxovuxawijopamuro.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004cdf.bin
26de07913a2eb3cc60a252d3dfd29ab4cff89e7dfa7d8b7810944d3ff5b9746f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CDF 4928 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d8e.bin
e9a5a1f6ed95b1e3669933bb00002ad32a1708c3e0b735191cad5e02368a6c7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D8E 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000661c.bin
27eaa922692d8e60b86ccf1decb9725451203247d59732620aed4af92bba2cf6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x661C 10316 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000899c.bin
94e9ec2320e1b64897f920c438d9cca58daef586678d4396aa249c79879d90b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x899C 16080 bytes